Game World
Launching Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint, an adventure novel in a video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow-brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes!
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“Autism Shmautism” by Tamar Jacobs
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A Student of History
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The Necessary Hunger
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“Old Bones” by Michael Patrick Brady
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Featured Titles
Featured: Black Interest
Caught Up
Author of the mega–best seller B-More Careful (350,000 sales) is back with an irresistible hard-boiled crime story.
Glorious
Award-winning novelist Bernice L. McFadden’s highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance.
Upcoming Events
Nina Revoyr — Santa Monica College’s Literary Series, Santa Monica, CA
3/27/19, 6:00pm
Nina Revoyr will be featured at Santa Monica College’s Literary Series beginning with a reception starting at 6:00 pm with a reading to follow at 6:45 pm. There will also be a Q&A and book signing after.
Vancouver Noir — Regency C/D, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
3/28/19, 7:30pm
Noir at the Bar: Left Coast Crime Edition with Blake Crouch, Kellye Garrett, Rob Hart, Vicki Delany, Dietrich Kalteis, Robin Burcell, Thomas Pluck, Hilary Davidson, Sam Wiebe, Lisa Brackmann, Frank Zafiro, S.J. Rozan.
News & Features
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Kwame Dawes is a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient!
Congratulations to Kwame Dawes, author of the forthcoming novel Bivouac!
- “Autism Shmautism” by Tamar Jacobs
- “Old Bones” by Michael Patrick Brady
- “Bottlemouth” by Justin Haynes
- “You’re in My Space” by Lisa Cole
Akashic Insider
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TIGERBELLE featured for Black History Month
Author and Olympian Wyomia Tyus featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution!
- Bernice L. McFadden is Go On Girl! Book Club’s 2018 Author of the Year
- Bobby Sullivan’s Introduction to Revolutionary Threads
- DEATH OF A RAINMAKER is a Best Book of 2018!
- RIVERS SOLOMON in the New York Times!